She chose the angle that none of her emails were “marked” classified when she sent or received them.
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At NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum Wednesday night, Matt Lauer noted that FBI Director James Comey said “any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position should have known that an unclassified system was no place” to have certain conversations. It’s “reasonable”, he said, that Clinton may not have realized these were classified.
The report showed Clinton and her staff claimed to be unable recall few details about the private email server that resided in the former secretary of state’s basement during her State Department tenure. She also disputed the need for these particular paragraphs to be classified at all.
In August 2015, Clinton conceded using a private email server “clearly wasn’t the best choice”, adding, “I take responsibility for that decision”. What about the other 78? Questions have been raised over whether she was involved in pay-for-play involving the Clinton Foundation while Clinton was Secretary of State.
But new documents from the e-mail scandal that continues to shadow her campaign cast serious doubt on her understanding of national security risks and possibly her underlying health.
” “Classified” isn’t an inherent or self-evident status”.
“Yes, because – of course, there were no discussions of any of the covert actions in process, being determined about whether or not to go forward”. So it’s not that there was no classified material in Clinton’s unsecured email, or that it was not classified at the time, or that it was not marked as classified-three earlier excuses that have been overtaken by the facts. She also told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that she did not pay attention to the level of classification but says she took classified information seriously.
While Comey announced in June he would not recommend charging Clinton, he called her behavior “extremely careless”.
For example, some of these email discussions touched on the CIA’s drone program.
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When it comes to Clinton’s handling of classified information, still more excuses crop up.
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Speaking today at an intelligence-related summit in Washington, D.C., Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said USA agencies are “guilty” of labeling too much information as classified, and he said agencies could “somewhat simplify our system” if they would “just not bother” restricting information that’s now classified as “confidential”, the lowest level of classification. That’s likely the case regarding Clinton’s emails, said Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, which favors less classification. “Very little of what’s classified would be deemed so by all experienced observers”. After two officials advised that emails she sent would be subject to open-records laws, a Clinton aide dropped the request, citing a bogus concern about migrating data. “It is marked. There is a header so that there is no dispute at all that what is being communicated to or from someone who has that access is marked classified”. Rather, Clinton now says, none of it carried a header indicating its classified status, as opposed to markings within the text. Classified material usually has a heading marked “top secret”, she said.
